Pong Chi Yuen joined the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1993, served as the Head of Department of Computer Science from 2011 – 2017 and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of Faculty of Science from 2018-2024. Currently, he is a Chair Professor in Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Over the years, Yuen has spent his sabbatical and visited a number of universities/research institutes as a visiting professor/scholar, including the University of Sydney , the University of Maryland at College Park, INRIA Rhone Alpes, ETH Zurich, and the University of Bologna.

Yuen has been actively involved in many international conferences and professional community in the capacity of general/programme co-chair.  Yuen has served as the Vice President (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2017-2019). Currently, Yuen is serving as the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behaviour and Identity Science. He received the first-prize and second-prize Natural Science Awards from the Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education, China, respectively. He is a Fellow of IAPR.